Wednesday, September 24, 2008

My third poll (How to solve the broadband incentive problem) has ended, and here are the results:

Usage-based metering: 9%

Service-based tiers: 18%

More bandwidth (FTTH): 31%

Allow throttling: 15%

Accept that access is a dumb pipe business: 53%

Bundle access with other services: 25%

I suppose answers 1-4 are remedies of sorts, with FTTH fortunately by far the most popular. Answer 6 has surpisingly few proponents, or put differently: surprisingly many people still feel that access is good business (answer 5), despite the fact that it is quite 'dumb' (in other words: a utility service).

Of course, one could easily vote for all 6 answers since none of them excludes another, as a valued reader remarked.

1 comment:

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